davecoupe
RMS Photographer
Thankfully, there is a full calendar of Irish Tarmac Rallying planned for this year and the regular season opener was in Galway at the weekend.
Easily the wettest conditions I've ever stood out in at a rally, it was absolutely atrocious, worse than Rally Ireland weather ....... but at least the rain helped to wash the roads which had loads of mud pulled out onto them following the recce.
Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes took the victory, closely followed by Merrion Evans and Jonathan Jackson with Callum Devine sir and Brian Hoy rounding out the top 3. It was a good return to form for Josh who said "everything just clicked", but the top 3 could have been very different at the end as both Merrion and Callum had big moments on the last stage Meirion bounced off a few Galway stone ditches 4 km from the end and was carrying a broken wheel in the back of the Polo which miraculously was still holding air and Callum had a big cut out of the sidewall of his tyre on the finish ramp
Anyway, few pics from Galway
Easily the wettest conditions I've ever stood out in at a rally, it was absolutely atrocious, worse than Rally Ireland weather ....... but at least the rain helped to wash the roads which had loads of mud pulled out onto them following the recce.
Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes took the victory, closely followed by Merrion Evans and Jonathan Jackson with Callum Devine sir and Brian Hoy rounding out the top 3. It was a good return to form for Josh who said "everything just clicked", but the top 3 could have been very different at the end as both Merrion and Callum had big moments on the last stage Meirion bounced off a few Galway stone ditches 4 km from the end and was carrying a broken wheel in the back of the Polo which miraculously was still holding air and Callum had a big cut out of the sidewall of his tyre on the finish ramp
Anyway, few pics from Galway